Word: admited
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Another factor is the disillusion over the current code. IRS officials say more and more people are bucking the system in a variety of ways, from petty cheating on tax forms to holding off IRS agents with shotguns. Whether we like to admit it or not, the U.S. is great because it has always found money to meet its problems. The Treasury calls this special quality "taxpayer morale," the willingness of citizens to finance Government activities. That morale has rested on the belief that everyone was paying a fair share. Now that collective faith is in jeopardy...
...people say that's my weakness. I admit I've not run for office or managed someone's campaign. But I've been a close observer of the Washington scene. I've followed it all my life. So I don't come to Washington as a complete stranger, a fellow from below Chambers Street in Manhattan...
...words like hamburger (bifteck hache) and show biz (industrie du spectacle). Officials are busy coining replacements for such computer terms as hardware (materiel) and software (logiciel). While the language may be under assault, French pride--and what would France be without it?--remains / indestructible. "We find it hard to admit direct American influence," says Duhamel with a smile. "In the classroom, for instance, instead of admitting that we have rediscovered the American Revolution, we tend to say we have rediscovered Alexis de Tocqueville, who dissected it, and who was a great French political philosopher...
Although, according to Ferry, DeMaiha and Harvard play a similar style of "push-the-batt-up" basketball, both players admit that they don't really have any special on-court chemistry together left over from high school days...
...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is--working out some system of fooling the grader; although I think I should prefer the word "impressing". We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hyper-credulous simps. His first two tactics for system beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocations, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson--reading graders (there are a few, and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...